"Confessions of a Mask" Quotes
A young man in pre-war Japan grapples with his homosexual desires and struggles to conform to societal expectations.
fiction | 260 pages | Published in 1958
Quotes
I felt, too, the sensation of returning to a place from which one has long been absent.
Love's power is in the distance it puts between two people.
I was conscious of my smallness in the face of the steep green mountains.
The eyes of men have been a source of inspiration for as long as there have been art and history.
To love someone is to exclude the rest of the world.
In love, one always starts by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
All men are given more than one life to live and more than one salvation to find.
Loneliness was no longer a monster that night, but a kind of medicine.
I had learned that one could not interact with others while wearing a mask.
The body, as flesh, would sooner or later become destroyed anyway. It was an ugly sight, like a pasture burned black.





